Category: On Event

Programming Developers Diary – 11

Feb 9, 2017

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February 9, 2017 Picking up where we left off yesterday, we will look at our Menu System on our Clock Calendar. If you followed along on the Building a Better Desktop session then you have seen this before. I decided to review the code with you since I have made changes. Here is the xbasic…
Programming Developers Diary – 10

Feb 8, 2017

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February 8, 2017 Hello again. The last couple of days have been spent doing administrative functions and nothing in the way of programming. This morning I started a review of my current projects to see what needed the most attention and the project manager wins. When I started this project my intention was to provide…
Programming Developers Diary – 09

Feb 3, 2017

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February 1, 2017 Hello everyone. As stated yesterday I will be looking at using the collection function in Alpha Software. When I started the discussion about the chess game I stated one of the weaknesses of the current game is handling check. In the example below, Black checks white. The only activity the program needs…
Programming Developers Diary – 08

Jan 31, 2017

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January 30, 2017 Good morning everyone. Picking up where we left off last week we were examining why the current logic for our chess program was weak and ineffective. As I was reviewing the existing code for this post, I once again got drawn into the development of the game. I actually started this post…
Programming Developers Diary – 07

Jan 24, 2017

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January 24, 2017 Hello everyone. Hope you had a nice weekend. If you have been following along you know we did a fun project ‘Designing a Chess Game in Alpha Software’. It was fun for me at least and I hope all of you liked it or at least found some value in it. The…
Programming Developer’s Diary – 06

Jan 20, 2017

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January 20th, 2017 Hello everyone. This morning I had an online training session with the client who received the receivables upgrade and it went very well. I left the session telling the person to send an email with all adjustments or changes they wished to see no matter how small and I just got a…
Programming Developers Diary – 05

Jan 19, 2017

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January 19, 2017 Hello everyone. The last two days have been busy with typical duties related to a small software business. My arrangement with my customers is they can go under contract and get free support for programming issues as well as a discount for new programming needs. Normally all goes well but some days…
Developers Diary-04

Jan 16, 2017

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in Conditional Object, Declaring Variables on a Form, Design Document, Desktop Application, Developers Diary, Form Design, Form Load Method, How To, List Object, List Objects, On Event, On Push, Tables and Sets, Using If Else if, XBasic Tips and Tricks

Hello everyone. Hope all of you had a good weekend. Today I had a customer call to request a list of quotes linked to the Customer form. Quotes can be in the form of Shop repairs or Part Orders and any given customer could have both. Since Quotes are not linked to the Customer form,…
Programming Developers Diary – 03

Jan 13, 2017

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January 13,2017 Hello everyone. I have completed the receivables module upgrade for my customer and did the thing I hate most but must do which is check my work. Typically I test my work as I go along but those test work on the norm rather than the exception. We all know in the business…
TakeCharge App Manager Lesson 03

Jun 10, 2016

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Currently I am still working on the routine for editing scripts and weighing the best possible solutions. So in the meantime, lets look at some of the Modules which will accompany our application. One module which I left out of the original list is an email manager. If you are developing for clients, a common …